Tuesday 2 May 2017

Our New School Worm Bin

Hooray! Today our new worm bin finally arrived. It was delivered by Oliver from his company called Worms R Us.  Another company called Mother Life sponsored our bin and Oliver's company manufactured it.

Oliver taught us what materials are nutritious for the worms to eat: vegetables, banana skins, apple cores, other fruits that are not citrus, some paper, brown paper bags, cardboard(corrugated is best), tea bags and coffee grinds.

There are 16,000 worms in our new bin. The number will increase as the worms' eggs hatch. Did you know that 1-20 worms can hatch from one egg?

Monitors from each class will put our scraps into the worm bin daily.

The worm tea(liquid that drips out from the bottom of the bin) and worm castings (poo)will be collected and used as fertiliser for our school gardens.

15 comments:

  1. I loved being taught about tiger worms and I also liked helping Mrs Morris get ideas to type on the computer because the class helped her get ideas to type. Rm 18 did you have fun helping Mrs Morris?

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  2. It was a very CRUCIAL lesson for us at the worm bin talk. It was also very interesting too. What part did you like at the worm bin talk.

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  3. I love that we have a worm bin now because, I think we are going to recycle more then we ever have done before.Do you think we are going to recycle more?

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  4. I think the new worm bin is going to be better . do you think the new
    worm bin is better ?

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  5. WOW! Look at our amazing new worm bin.
    Oliver learnt us so much stuff about worms.
    I learnt so much stuff! Did you learn anything?

    By Macy

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  6. WOW room 18 the worm bin Looks good

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  7. WOW! I didn't know that you can have 16000 worms in one worm bin. Did you? That's a lot of worms! I'm sure that the monitors will do a great job of putting the scraps in the bin.

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  8. Thank you Oliver we love our worm bin.What did you like learning?

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  9. At the worm talk there were lots of people. What part did you enjoy? mine
    was when he said... "you can put banana skins in the worm bin" because I love bananas.

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  10. Oliver taught us a lot about tiger worms! It was kind of boring just sitting down listening to him though.Did you find it a little bit boring?

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    1. Yes Tait it was kind of boring.

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  11. Carter, Liam and Kevin21 May 2017 at 15:02

    We thought listening to Oliver was a little boring! But we learnt all lot of intresting things, like when he said one worm can lay 1-20 eggs. What fact did you learn?

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    1. THAT IS!!! Really COOL LIAM CARTER And KEVIN

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  12. Hi Rm 18
    I loved learning about tiger worms. I think it was really interesting but not boring when Oliver talked to us. I thought it was really interesting and fun learning about worms.

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  13. Hi Room 18
    I enjoyed it when the man came to teach us all about worms.
    The part i liked the most was when he taught us about tiger worms.
    What did you get taught?
    What did you like about him?

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